George Will: Lerner is the real face of IRS's illegal behavior

6:17 PM,
Mar. 7, 2014

George Will

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George F. Will

What's been said of confession - that it is good for one's soul but bad for one's reputation - can also be true of testifying to Congress, so Lois Lerner has chosen to stay silent. Hers, however, is an eloquent silence.

The most intrusive and potentially most punitive federal agency has been politicized; the IRS has become an appendage of Barack Obama's party. Furthermore, congruent with exhortations from some congressional Democrats, it is intensifying its efforts to suffocate groups critical of progressives, by delaying what once was the swift, routine granting of tax-exempt status.